The functional role sadness, fear, suffering, and all such emotions plays is the same role pain plays: It is an indicator, telling the mind where the problem is.
There are certainly multiple ways to “fix” the problem. In the end, however, the methods that in any way dampen progress are methods that don’t actually fix the problem. (The problem is never external)
Roughly 80% of the time, people are offended by things that they don’t know they do themselves.
That’s why it is very important to listen to the emotional pain: to figure that out.
Roughly 20% of the time, people are offended by things that they do the opposite of on purpose, and take pride in.
In this case, it is equally important to listen to the emotional pain: to figure out that they are doing the wrong thing.
These two things can overlap.
Roughly 50% of the time, people get offended at their own imaginations; and what they are offended by has no bearing in reality. As in: they put words in people’s mouths, or they alter definitions.
At these times, there is no reasonable way to avoid offending these people. They alter their understanding of reality so that they can be offended. They’re basically addicted to getting offended.
Yes, I really mean 50%.
The functional role sadness, fear, suffering, and all such emotions plays is the same role pain plays: It is an indicator, telling the mind where the problem is. There are certainly multiple ways to “fix” the problem. In the end, however, the methods that in any way dampen progress are methods that don’t actually fix the problem. (The problem is never external)
Roughly 80% of the time, people are offended by things that they don’t know they do themselves. That’s why it is very important to listen to the emotional pain: to figure that out.
Roughly 20% of the time, people are offended by things that they do the opposite of on purpose, and take pride in. In this case, it is equally important to listen to the emotional pain: to figure out that they are doing the wrong thing. These two things can overlap.
Roughly 50% of the time, people get offended at their own imaginations; and what they are offended by has no bearing in reality. As in: they put words in people’s mouths, or they alter definitions. At these times, there is no reasonable way to avoid offending these people. They alter their understanding of reality so that they can be offended. They’re basically addicted to getting offended. Yes, I really mean 50%.